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BURKE AND HARE

By John LANDIS

SOOKIE PICTURES - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD

Black comedy - Completed 2009

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Black comedy
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Duration
- 20 mn
- Director(s)
- John LANDIS
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-C626-0000-A-0000-0000-7
- EIDR
- 10.5240/8D6C-2A8F-6961-2444-83BB-Z
- Synopsis
- Legendary film-maker John Landis will Direct this black comedy about hapless entrepreneurs William Burke and William Hare as they develop a lucrative venture in 19th century Edinburgh. What starts as an opportunistic “small-business enterprise” soon expands to grave-robbing and “ethical” murder to meet the insatiable demand of the leading Surgeons of the day.